Cucumber, lemon and gin drizzle cake
Wednesday, November 14, 2018
I created a cucumber, lemon and gin drizzle cake and I couldn't be more delighted with myself. It is truly scrumptious. Not all my experiments work but I'm thrilled to say that this one really did and I love it. I involved a lot of people in sampling it and the feedback was overwhelmingly positive!
I have been growing my own cucumbers and can’t believe how many I have been getting from one plant. Better still, they have been absolutely huge! I have been looking for ways to use them up and if I’m completely honest, I’m a bit bored of eating them with everything.
I have used carrots and courgettes in baking before but wasn’t sure if cucumber would work. Given the sheer quantity of cucumber in the house, it was a no-brainer to give it a go. I’m glad I did as it resulted in a fresh, moist and delicious cake, perfect with the gin drizzle!
- 200g cucumber (deseeded and grated)
- zest & juice of half a lemon
- 150g butter
- 200g caster sugar
- 2 eggs
- 200g self-raising flour
For the drizzle
- 3 tbsps gin
- 75g caster sugar
- Pre-heat the oven to 180C
- Line a 2 lb cake tin
- Add the lemon zest and juice to the grated cucumber
- beat together the butter and sugar until pale and creamy
- mix in the eggs
- Add a quarter of the flour and mix then a quarter of the cucumber and mix. Repeat until it is all added
- Pour the mixture into the lined cake tin
- Bake in the oven for around 45 minutes (if it starts looking too brown, place a sheet of tinfoil over the top
- When cooked, the cake should spring back to the touch and a skewer should come out clean when inserted
My Monster home grown cucumbers
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gin and cake- 2 of my favourite things!
ha Tina- me too! What’s not to like?
Hello – great idea and it was nice to find this on search. Please note your website doesn’t work when trying to expand the images – first one (just the cut cucumbers) comes up enlarged but the arrows don’t work to show the rest.
thanks for the heads up!